Sneak peek some of New York's most extraordinary homes

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A new book introduces you to New York's most incredible homes (and characters)

NEW YORK: Places to Write Home About looks at a cross-section of the great spaces for living created by New Yorkers. Written by writer, broadcaster and filmmaker Polly Devlin, and photographed by Annie Schlechter, this book is about the art of living in NYC and the stories connected to them. Click through for a sneak peek at some impressive and wild spaces from NY's most colourful characters.

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Artist Jane Rosenblum
Brownstone, West 10th Street

"To enter Jane’s house is to step inside the golden door and be walloped by a technicolour spectacle full of strange things, like a fabulous turn-of-the-century bazaar as imagined, say, by Balzac high on opium – that is until you look at the paintings and then you are, wham-bang, catapulted into an echt contemporary, almost a distillation of eclectic New York art of the last few decades." – Polly Devlin

Image: Annie Schlechter

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Jane Rosenblum

"The crushed glass dining room table is by Daniel Clément. Above it hangs a chandelier Jane found in Miami. The painting on the left of the fireplace is by Alan Turner and on the right a work by Frank Stella hangs below a collage by Bruce Conner. On the wall to the right is a vast piece by Kelley Walker." – Polly Devlin

Image: Annie Schlechter

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Jewellery designer, Kenneth Jay Lane
Park Avenue duplex

"I first met him in the 1960s, when I was working at Vogue and he was inVogue, already one of the most iconic jewellery designers in the world... There is an element of the fabulous about both him and his grande luxe duplex in one of the handful of surviving mansions on Park Avenue, in the Murray neighborhood." – Polly Devlin

Image: Annie Schlechter

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Kenneth Jay Lane

"Another seating area in front of a large bookcase with a carved pediment, one of a pair bought as double doors at auction. The pouffe is covered with tiger-skin fabric from Le Manach." – Polly Devlin

"Although Robert Littman and Sully Bonnelly’s rectilinear and capacious apartment – perhaps better classified as a loft – is a stone’s throw from the chaotic busyness of Union Square with its farmers’ market, its chess games and musicians, once inside it’s as tranquil and removed as a cloister... But it’s a cheerful cloister full of art and it flows in a wraparound circle." – Polly Devlin

"It’s organized on three levels, with architectural practice offices at front ground level and living spaces at the back tumbling downwards to the small terraced garden. Behind the secretive facade the loft – never reaching the top storeys – soars up here, down there, in a wizard series of spaces; rooms loom over rooms in a sort of stratigraphy." – Polly Devlin

Image: Annie Schlechter

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Linda Pollak and Sandro Marpillero

"The living room, with its reproduction Eileen Gray sofa, Le Corbusier/Perriand chaise longue and Noguchi table, seen from high up in the mezzanine library space, with the little courtyard garden beyond. The rows of wooden joists on the left and joist pockets on the right make visible where part of the first floor was removed." – Polly Devlin